TEACHER:
"Clyde, your composition on 'My Dog' is exactly the same as your
brother's. Did you copy his essay?"

CLYDE:
"No, sir. It's the same dog."

TEACHER:
"Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when
people are no longer interested?"

HAROLD:
"A teacher?"

(The
following was emailed to me without attribution:)

Where
Teachers
Came From:

On the seventh
day, God rested. Not so much to recuperate, but rather to prepare
himself for the work he was going to do the eighth day.

For it was on
the eighth day that God created the teacher. God made the teacher
more durable than other men and women.

The teacher
could arise at a very early hour and to go to bed far past normal
bedtimes with no rest in between. The teacher could withstand being
locked up in an airtight room with 27 little cherubs on a rainy
Monday. And the teacher had to be fit to prepare semester grade
reports over Christmas vacation.

Yes, God made
the teacher tough - but gentle too. The teacher was equipped with
soft hands to wipe away the tears of the neglected and lonely student
... of the 9 year old girl who was not asked to the sleepover... or
the 1st grader whose daddy moved away.

And into the
teacher God poured a generous amount of patience. Patience when a
student asks to repeat the directions the teacher has just repeated
for someone else. Patience when the kids forget their lunch money for
the fourth day in a row. Patience when 1/3 of the class fails the
test. Patience when the text books haven't arrived yet, and the
school year starts tomorrow.

And God gave
the teacher a heart bigger than the average human heart. For the
teacher's heart had to be big enough to love the kid who screams,
"I hate this class" and to love the kid who runs out of the
room at the end of the day without so much as a good bye or a thank you.

And lastly,
God gave the teacher an abundant supply of hope. For God knew that
the teacher would always be hoping. Hoping that the students would
one day learn to write... Hoping not to have lunchroom duty ...
hoping to eventually catch up...hoping for wisdom to do all things well.

When God
finished creating the teacher, he stepped back and admired the work
of his hands. And God saw that the teacher was good.

And God
smiled, for when he looked at the teacher he saw into the future. He
knew that the future is in hands of the teachers, and they were
prepared for the challenge.

And because
God loves teachers so much, on the 9th day God created SNOW DAYS.

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